Japanese Island Holds Disaster Drill in Shadow of Taiwan Threat

YONAGUNI, Japan (Reuters) – Japan on Sunday performed a tidal wave discharge drill on its western island, a workout that can likewise assist citizens reply to an emergency situation emerging from any kind of effort by China to take control of neighboring self-ruled Taiwan, an authorities stated.

About 200 island authorities and participants of Japan’s armed forces, referred to as the Self-Defence Force (SDF), participated in the workout on Yonaguni, Japan’s western island, 2,000 kilometres (1,240 miles) southwest of the funding, Tokyo.

But SDF helicopters and touchdown craft from ships that had actually cruised greater than 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) from the primary Japanese islands were incapable to sign up with the workout due to the fact that of solid winds.

“We can’t choose the time when we will face a disaster. We have to think about the worst thing that can happen and plan for that,” the mayor of Yonaguni, Kenichi Itokazu, informed authorities at the island’s city center at the …